Life, ” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

How many roads must a man walk down?

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves.

He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes.

The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis substantial fiscal resources were necessary.

Going into auditions, there is a wonderful butterfly feeling in your stomach - an equal balance of being utterly terrified and exhilarated that this is your chance.

We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again.

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear was kind of my first important book

Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.

So all my best is dressing old words new.